15
144
fire
which
was a
coming from above, at the stern of the ship.
The fire got
worse and worse,
and we all scrambled for the forchatch - Somebody opened the hatch. I. could not see who
opened it, but I heard it
Avas
one
of our Cooks - None of
the other hatches
There was nobo .
wvere
opened .
dy
came in to the
maindeck while
I.
was there,
There
fifty
men get
A great many
were about
on deck before
evere
trampled deur - The corks
had gone
gone up
www
to wash the
dishes that we had used', and
were all on deck when the fire
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461 in form off the 2, the then fast-1949 HP,